Hi everyone,
I have been dual-booting Helena and Windows 7 for a couple of months now without any problems, but just today when I tried to boot up Mint I was unable to boot. When I tried recovery mode, the problem was identified as
missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
I can boot up Windows just fine and I can't think of anything I did between last night and today that may have suddenly caused this problem. There are a few topics on the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1018403&page=2) on this subject but no one seems to have a definite answer. I tried a couple of the suggested solutions but to no avail. The booting always runs into problems when it is trying to find my root file partition. I ran memtest and everything seems to be fine on that score. I am a noob to this so I don't know how to do any fiddling with the grub loader or anything like that without guidance. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I might do?
Elizabeth
[solved] missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
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[solved] missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
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eclee25
Re: [solved] missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
I found a solution to my problem here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... 403&page=2 following a modified version LerkeR's advice. Apparently it was an issue with not being able to find my root partition.
On this screen: http://www.linuxmint.com/img/screenshot ... olinux.png
I noted that Mint was installed on "/dev/sda5". For some reason my start screen as never simply said "Start Linux Mint" as the screenshot's does, but in this instance it helped out.
I then selected Linux Mint using the arrow keys and pressed 'e'.
A few lines down I changed root=UUID=9c05139c-b5bb-4683-a860a7bdf456ccda ro quiet splash to
root=/dev/sda5
Then I pressed 'Ctrl-X' to load.
When the LM logo was up it said that there was a delay accessing /dev/sda5 but it shortly booted up afterwards. There don't seem to be any problems but I will repost if something else arises with this issue.
No LiveCD was needed.
Edit: restarted my computer just to see if there would be any issues and there weren't any. I didn't have to edit the code again in order for it to boot properly.
Also noted that Husse also makes this exact same suggestion at the top of the forum: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=4961
On this screen: http://www.linuxmint.com/img/screenshot ... olinux.png
I noted that Mint was installed on "/dev/sda5". For some reason my start screen as never simply said "Start Linux Mint" as the screenshot's does, but in this instance it helped out.
I then selected Linux Mint using the arrow keys and pressed 'e'.
A few lines down I changed root=UUID=9c05139c-b5bb-4683-a860a7bdf456ccda ro quiet splash to
root=/dev/sda5
Then I pressed 'Ctrl-X' to load.
When the LM logo was up it said that there was a delay accessing /dev/sda5 but it shortly booted up afterwards. There don't seem to be any problems but I will repost if something else arises with this issue.
No LiveCD was needed.
Edit: restarted my computer just to see if there would be any issues and there weren't any. I didn't have to edit the code again in order for it to boot properly.
Also noted that Husse also makes this exact same suggestion at the top of the forum: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=4961